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That moment when you have the pill bottle in front of you but can't remember if you took it.

 

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16 hours ago, Kelly said:

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OMG I remember these kiosks! Used them a lot, back when I still used film!

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Agfa or Kodak or Fujii? That was the question. Remember DIN and ASA?

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On 5/12/2025 at 4:39 AM, Kelly said:

That moment when you have the pill bottle in front of you but can't remember if you took it.

 

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It's scary how often this is me.😱

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I take a vitamin that is twice daily. When I take one in the morning I turn the bottle upside. When I take one in the evening I turn it right side up again. That helps remind me if I have taken one.

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2 hours ago, Kelly said:

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Sometimes I regret never riding in a school bus except for the occasional class field trips, as the experience might have allowed e to learn how social interactions work sooner. Thanks to them not being an option growing up in Manhattan in the 60s, and then living too close to high school when we moved to Long Island, and not being allowed to spend time with schoolmates outside of school (don't ask), I lost out on some useful education. OTOH, I don't regret missing out on the crowding, cliquishness and bullying I heard about from my fellow "loser" friends.

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1 hour ago, slywlf said:

Sometimes I regret never riding in a school bus except for the occasional class field trips, as the experience might have allowed e to learn how social interactions work sooner. Thanks to them not being an option growing up in Manhattan in the 60s, and then living too close to high school when we moved to Long Island, and not being allowed to spend time with schoolmates outside of school (don't ask), I lost out on some useful education. OTOH, I don't regret missing out on the crowding, cliquishness and bullying I heard about from my fellow "loser" friends.

We walked to school in the 60s, too (even as small children, and even in the rain and snow). We rode busses for field trips.

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2 minutes ago, Kelly said:

We walked to school in the 60s, too (even as small children, and even in the rain and snow). We rode busses for field trips.

Yeah, same here (not American). I associate buses with field trips, not every day "school commute".

 

@daveb Interesting hack, re: medications :) Thanks.

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Same regarding walking to school vs buses. :D

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I walked to school until I was 12. Sometimes that was longer than a mile. For two school years at about 7 and 8, I walked home for lunch as well (my brother was a really fussy eater and couldn't get on with school dinners). When he moved to Senior school I changed to school dinners (to my parents great relief I just ate what was put in front of me - no questions asked).

 

But at age 12 we moved town and bus was the only sensible way to get to the mega-campus out of town.

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I walked to school 1st grade thru my sophomore yr in high school.  About a mile there and back.  Don't ever remember getting a snow day.  Or any day off.

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Until 11 I walked to school, 11 to 14 I took the train, then we moved house so it was a regular service bus from then. 

At secondary school ( 11-18) we'd occasionally get "snow days", as our school had a large, rural, quite hilly catchment area, so if buses or trains stopped pupils couldn't get in, or there was a risk that snowfall would strand them.

 

Note for non-UK folk, our trains are carefully designed to stop working after 5mm ¼" of snow falls and until recently winter tyres were unheard of 

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Peace! Make love, not war!

 

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Remember when TVs and vacuum cleaners didn't mix?

 

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Yep, or electric mixers. :lol: 

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Basically anything with a motor 

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4 hours ago, Kelly said:

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Oh yeah! No fireplace (Florida is too hot to begin with! LOL), but a glass of wine, a book and my recliner - count me in!

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I remember my grandparents coming to visit, and smoking. 3 out of 4 of my grandparents smoked. One died in his early 70s after a long awful bout of lung cancer. Another lived to a ripe old age, but had emphysema in his later years. The other 2 passed away of other causes (one relatively young, the other (the only non-smoker) after a long active life).

 

I don't miss the ubiquity of smoking. :P 

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When I was young, everyone smoked everywhere.  In the car, in the restaurant, in the home, in the movie theater, even in hospitals.  I taught myself to smoke when I was 19 because I felt odd not smoking.   It was a social requirement.   

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Everyone remembers the 1960s differently. I saw this on FB today. It is R. Crumb's memories of the decade.

 

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10 hours ago, Kelly said:

Everyone remembers the 1960s differently. I saw this on FB today. It is R. Crumb's memories of the decade.

 

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Love Crumb!!!

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7 hours ago, Kelly said:

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Love her and Love this song!! 😍 

 

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